Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27325392-20180420040039/@comment-31398433-20180427003233

Hayds126 wrote: Kitrank Vopafal wrote: Just because the game had an original story and original characters, it doesn't justify directly stealing the concept and 800 sprites of Pokémon. What the developers did is considered stealing, for directly using art assets and making an unimaginable amount of profit from them. Even if they made no profit, I don't think they're allowed to use owned assets but they cashed out big time. Honestly, they deserved to be sued for all the money they stole. Just think about all the money that went into buying robux to be spent on this game instead of actually buying a real Pokémon game. Did PBB actually have some effort put into it instead of just using Pokémon's assets and being a generic Pokémon ripoff for easy profit? No, it had the original story and characters, but it didn't have the right to use the assets reguardless. It was a good game but this had to happen eventually. It's time to get over it. Just to be clear, game is never coming back and nobody will be refunded for the robux they spent. In terms of spending robux, you should have known the possibility that the game would be taken down ones day. If you didn’t then that’s on you. But overall I agree well that truly makes sense. I had been waiting for someone to write an essay here for all of us, and those kids raging in the discord and uploading youtube videos to read and understand,

Well i think the developers SHOULD'VE at least ask for permission from the Pokemon Company and such before publishing the game because it will not get taken down like this, maybe half, or all of the profit goes to the Pokemon Company and GameFreak and bla bla bla but at least the dev team can make a game that is safe from copyright, maybe they would fail to get permission from them, but maybe they would success, and after that they would've been safe creating the whole game if they can get permission.